Why We Don’t Ask for a Card

Why We Don't Ask for a Card | BuboSoma
How We Do Trials

We don't ask for a card.
On purpose.

Start your 14-day trial with just an email. No card, no countdown you have to remember to beat, no charge you didn't see coming.

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Most software asks for a credit card before you've even tried the product. It's a bet: get the card on file early, and inertia does the rest. Most people who forget to cancel end up paying, whether they meant to or not.

We could do that too. We don't.

"But I'm stuck with Mindbody unless I pay their $500 switching fee." That's the sentence that started BuboSoma. We know exactly what it feels like to get caught by a policy you didn't read closely enough, at a moment you had no leverage.

Why this actually matters to us

BuboSoma exists because a previous platform raised its price and made it expensive to leave. That's not an abstract complaint, it's the whole reason this company was built. So when we design something as basic as a trial, we ask a simple question first: would this make a customer feel the same way we did?

A trial that quietly charges your card on day 8 because you forgot to cancel passes that test technically, you agreed to it, it's in the terms. But it fails it in every way that actually matters. It's the same move, just smaller and earlier in the relationship.

What happens instead

1
Start your trial with just an email.

Pick a plan to explore. No card, no billing details, nothing to remember to remove later.

2
Use BuboSoma for 14 real days.

Full access to core features. See if it actually fits how your practice runs, not just how it looks in a demo.

3
Decide when you're ready, not when a countdown forces you to.

Love it? Choose a plan and get billed from that point forward. Not sure yet, or need more time? Nothing happens. No charge, no card to cancel.

4
If you don't choose, your account simply pauses.

On day 15, your account pauses in read-only mode. You can view and export records, but booking, calendar changes, payments, messages, staff actions, and active practice-management features are disabled until you choose a plan.

Who this is really for

Most of the people running a massage practice aren't tracking a trial-expiration date in a calendar app. You're between clients, catching up on notes, or just trying to get through the day. A billing model that depends on you remembering to cancel by a specific date is a model built for someone else's business, not yours.

So we built the version that doesn't require you to remember anything at all. If BuboSoma is right for your practice, you'll choose it because it works, not because you missed a deadline.

The honest trade-off

We know the industry-standard version of this, card required, auto-converts unless canceled, generally converts more trials into paying customers. That's not a secret, and it's not wrong for every company. It's just not us.

We'd rather earn a slower yes than collect a fast one nobody meant to give us.

See it for yourself. No card required.

Every BuboSoma plan starts with a real 14-day trial. Just an email to begin.

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Current as of August 2026. See our Pricing Terms for full trial details.
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